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Have thought to do a little blog about my car projects. An Opel Calibra Turbo which I based on the four-wheel drive to rear wheel drive. This is partly because the four-wheel drive can not handle power from the engine but also to RWD is so much more fun.

The rebuildPosted by CONMAN Wed, March 20, 2013 21:38:41The car down at the wheel again. What is left to do is: exhaust, interior design, attach the front with quick couplers, replace windshield, making new electrical system .

First up is an adapter for the prop shaft. I use a Volvo 740 drive shaft which I extended 8cm. I turned the drive shaft back and front, then it´s fits directly on my Opel Omega 3000 diff, but to get it to fit on the BMW gearbox needed an adapter.

The next part of the build is to get to the drive shafts back, those are the Omega 3000 diff is the strongest available to Opel but they do not fit straight off. The drive shafts are of great inner and outer flange and the original Clibran it's small outer flange.

To solve this, bought two outer flange of Opel Omega 2.4, they fit the drive shafts and they fit in the Calibration hubs. But 3000 diff is a bit wider than the original diff so I shortened the 2.4 outer flange 5mm.